Worse than that. Most children can feel, can emphasize with others, but is difficult because what they *want* is in conflict with hurting others.

This is a blatant absence of empathy… “I can’t understand it / comprehend it”, therefore it’s deeply discounted, or doesn’t exist. This is an admission of a sociopath, if even a mild sociopath.

Also then followed up by the the “men that serve” Heinlein trope, the “fuck you, I got mine” libertarianism / Ayn Randism.